Books with author George Augustus Baker Baker

Excerpt from From Waterloo to the Peninsula, Vol. 1 of 2: Four Months Hard Labor in Belgium, Holland, Germany, and SpainHis apparel must be mean, his back bent, his head cast down, his knees hinged, his hands submissively folded before him. Then, with bated breath - if he wishes to go to a second edition - he must say that he is very sorry for what he has done; he must promise amend ment for the next time; if he have any friends, he must' style them too partial if he have any enemies, he must strive to conciliate them by adroit flattery if he have a patron, or hope to have one, he must tell him, without sticking at the clumsiness of the compli ment, that he is good, and great, and beautiful; that he is an ornament to his sex, and a descendant of the Kings of Latium. There is no other way. I speak from experience. I have written twenty prefaces to books of mine own, and many more to books by other people. I have tried the preface argumentative, the preface self-asserting, the preface historical and critical, the preface circumlocutory, the preface sardonic, the preface contemptuous, and the preface indignant. Saddened, and I hope made wise, by many rebuffs, I have come to the conclusion that to achieve prefatory success the exemplar followed must not be Johnson, or Addison, or Steele - not Victor Hugo.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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For time out of mind -- for as many centuries as men have walked the earth -- long before steamers and railways, or even frigate-built ships and flying coaches were dreamt of, when an Englishman went abroad, he stopped there. A great fuss used to be made, before the days of steam, about the "Fair Sophia," who undertook a journey from Turkey to discover her lover, Lord Bateman; but how long and wearisome was her travail before she reached his lordship's castle in Northumberland and was informed by the "proud young porter" that he was just then "taking of his young bride in?" Madame Cottin's Elizabeth, when she walked from Tobolsk to St. Petersburg to crave pardon for the exiles of Siberia; Sir Walter Scott's Jeanie Deans, when she tramped from Edinburgh to London on her errand of mercy, were justly regarded as heroines. But what were the achievements of those valorous young women when compared with the Ladies who make tours round Monte Rosa; nay, for the matter of that, "all round the world?" Il n'y a plus de Pyrénées. Nay, there are no more Andes, Himalayas, or Rocky Mountains. When the late Mr. Albert Smith wanted to change the attractions of his show, he calmly took a trip from Piccadilly to Hong Kong.This is a tale from before these things -- it is the tale of the Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. II of III. He was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors . . .

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Excerpt from The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous: Who Was a Soldier, a Pirate, a Merchant, a Spy, a Slave Among the Moors, a Bashaw in the Service of the Great Turk, and Died at Last in His Own House in Hanover Square; A Narrative in Plain EnglishI, john dangerous, a faithful subject of his Majesty King George, whose bread, God bless him! I have eaten, and whose battles I have fought, in my poor way, am now in my sixty eighth year, and live in my own house in Hanover Square. By virtue of Several commissions, both English and foreign, I have a right to call myself Captain; and if any man say that I have no such right, he lies and deserves the stab. It may be that this narrative, now /composed only for my own pleasure, will, long after my death, see Fhe'light in print, and that some sham Captain or sham critic, or' pitiful creature of that kind, will question my rank, or otherwise despitefully use my memory. Let such gutter-bloods venture it at their peril. I have, alas, no heirs male; but to my daughter's hus band, and to his descendants, or, failing them, to their executors, administrators, and assigns, I solemnly commit the task Of seeking out such envious rogues, and Of kicking and cudgeling them on the basest part Of their base bodies. The stab I forego; I wish not to cheat the hangman of his due. But let the knaves discover, to the aching of their sorry Sides, that even the ghost Of John Dangerous is not to be trified with.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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